Conference / Colloque 2015

“Science and Technology Across Borders”

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The 2015 CSTHA biennial conference will be held November 6-8 at York University in Toronto. The Program Committee invites papers addressing this year’s conference theme: “science and technology across borders.” We also invite papers on all subjects relating to the history of science, technology, and medicine in Canada.

Plenary Speaker: John Krige, “Regulating the transnational flow of knowledge in research universities today: The role of the U.S. national security state after 9/11”

The free circulation of knowledge across borders in academia has been progressively eroded since the 1980s by new opportunities to commercialize research and, since 9/11, by the demand for tighter control on foreign nationals by the national security state. The production of knowledge that is increasingly both dual use and close to the market, and the insertion of research universities in the global knowledge economy, has transformed the research encounter between the U.S. researchers and their colleagues and students from abroad. Two concepts of security — security by achievement and security by secrecy — pit traditional academic values of openness and the free exchange of ideas against an increasingly intrusive state apparatus that shackles scientific collaboration and undermines trust.

John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Plenary Speaker: John Krige, “Regulating the transnational flow of knowledge in research universities today: The role of the U.S. national security state after 9/11”

The free circulation of knowledge across borders in academia has been progressively eroded since the 1980s by new opportunities to commercialize research and, since 9/11, by the demand for tighter control on foreign nationals by the national security state. The production of knowledge that is increasingly both dual use and close to the market, and the insertion of research universities in the global knowledge economy, has transformed the research encounter between the U.S. researchers and their colleagues and students from abroad. Two concepts of security — security by achievement and security by secrecy — pit traditional academic values of openness and the free exchange of ideas against an increasingly intrusive state apparatus that shackles scientific collaboration and undermines trust.

John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.